Protest at the Mets-Arizona Diamondbacks game!

Friday, July 30, 5 p.m  Rally outside Citi Field
126th & Roosevelt Ave. (7 Train to Mets-Willets Point Station)
(or March at 5 p.m. from 83rd & Roosevelt to the stadium)

On Friday, July 30, the Arizona Diamonbacks will come to NYC to play the NY Mets. Diamondbacks' owner, Ken Kendrick and his family contributed a combined $1,023,527 to help pass SB1070.
Moving the 2011 All-Stars Game would cost the State of Arizona more than $60 million!
 
Repeal Arizona's Racist SB1070! Move the 2011 All-Stars Game out of Arizona!

Endorsements: 1199 SEIU, 32BJ SEIU, Arizona Boycott Coalition, Boycott Arizona NYC Committee, Bail Out the People Movement, CAAAV, Hunter Campus Antiwar Network, International Socialist Organization, LatinoSports.com, Latino Sports Writers and Broadcasters Association (LSWBA), New Sanctuary movement of NYC, Socialist Alternative, VAMOS Unidos, Youth Leadership Council

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Immigrants & their allies to march across Brooklyn Bridge declaring,
"We Are ALL Arizona!"

Thursday, July 29
9:30 a.m. Gather at Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn
(A/C trains to High St. OR 2/3/4/5/R trains to Borough Hall)
10:00 a.m.  March across Brooklyn Bridge
11:00 a.m. Press Conference at Foley Square

On July 29, Arizona's new law legalizing racial profiling, known as SB 1070, is scheduled to go into effect. In response, immigrants and their allies from New York and New Jersey will march across the Brooklyn Bridge to call for the repeal of Arizona's unconscionable law. SB 1070 makes it a crime to be undocumented and requires the police to check the immigration status of those suspected of being undocumented. Immigrant communities, elected officials, and citizens alike will gather as part of a new civil rights movement to condemn SB 1070—which many have likened to the racial segregation laws of the past—as a clear violation of the most basic civil and human rights that must be immediately stopped. Further, they will demand an end to all programs like SB 1070 that target immigrant communities for mass detentions and deportations here in New York City and across the country.

The "We Are All Arizona" march in NYC on July 29th will raise a platform by local immigrant rights organizations including: (1) a call for an end to SB 1070 and the proliferation of copycat legislation now surfacing in over 20 states; (2) a call for an end to the use of racial profiling; (3) a demand for just and humane immigration reform that upholds family unity and human rights over increased enforcement; and (4) a call for an end to related programs such as 287(g), Criminal Alien Program, and Secure Communities (now in NY State) that use local law enforcement to tear families apart.
  
Sponsored by Families for Freedom, Churches United to Save and Heal, New York Sanctuary Coalition, DRUM, and VAMOS Unidos.

Democracy for NYC Joins Civil and Immigrants’ Rights Advocates to Urge NYPD Commissioner to Condemn Arizona’s Anti-immigrant Law

A press release dated June 10, 2010, announces a letter sent to NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly urging him to publicly condemn SB1070, Arizon's anti-immigrant law. A group of 55 New York-based immigrants’ rights, civil rights and social justice organizations, including Democracy for NYC, the New York Civil Liberties Union, New York Immigration Coalition, the NAACP New York State Conference, Amnesty International USA and the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, today asking Kelly to break his silence.

The press release continues: "Unlike many police chiefs, prosecutors and law enforcement experts nationwide, Kelly has not publicly criticized the discriminatory Arizona law, which was enacted in April and requires police to demand papers from people they stop proving citizenship or immigration status whenever there is a “reasonable suspicion” that an individual is in the country unlawfully.
 
On May 26, eight police chiefs from major U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, Houston and Philadelphia, met with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and expressed concern that laws like Arizona’s will harm public safety by driving a wedge between immigrant communities and law enforcement. New York City was not represented in the meeting.
 
'Commissioner Kelly’s silence regarding this disastrous law is deeply disappointing,' said NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman. 'As head of the nation’s largest police force in a city that has long embraced and defended the rights of immigrants, he should be a powerful voice against discriminatory law enforcement policies like Arizona’s. New Yorkers need assurance that he opposes all laws that endorse racial profiling.'

Kelly’s silence contrasts with the reactions of New York City’s top elected officials. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Public Advocate Bill De Blasio, Comptroller John Liu, and the New York City Council have been outspoken in their opposition to SB1070.
 
'Immigrants in New York City rely on the NYPD to protect our communities, and we need to be able to trust police officers to help us,' said Angela Fernandez, executive director of the Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrants’ Rights. 'We urge Commissioner Kelly to preserve that trust by condemning Arizona’s unjust, discriminatory law.' "
The following organizations signed the letter:
 
American Friends Service Committee Immigrant Rights Program
American Immigration Lawyers Association - New York
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee New York
Amnesty International USA
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
Association of Latin American Students, Medgar Evers College, CUNY
Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, UAW Local 2325
Bill of Rights Defense Committee
Black Institute
Breakthrough
Cabrini Immigrant Services
Center for Constitutional Rights
Center for Family Life in Sunset Park
Chinese Progressive Association
Churches United to Save and Heal
Council on American-Islamic Relations - New York
Democracy For New York City
Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM)
Drum Major Institute for Public Policy
El Centro del Imigrante
Families for Freedom
Good Shepherd Services
Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition
Haitian Americans United for Progress
Harlem Tenants Council, Inc.
Human Services Consortium of East Harlem
Judson Memorial Church
La Fuente: NYCPP & LICPP
La Union de La Comunidad Latina
Latino & Latin American Students' Association/Asociación de Estudiantes Latinos y Latinoamericanos (AELLA), Graduate Center, CUNY
LULAC - Syracuse Chapter
Metropolitan Russian American Parent Association
MinKwon Center for Community Action
NAACP New York State Conference
National Lawyers Guild NYC Chapter
New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City
New York Civil Liberties Union
New York Democratic Socialists of America
New York Immigration Coalition
New York Law School Racial Justice Project
New York State Youth Leadership Council
NICE New Immigrant Community Empowerment
Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights
Out4immigration.org
Professional Staff Congress, CUNY
Public Science Project, Graduate Center, CUNY
Queens Community House
Riverside Language Program
Rockland Immigration Coalition
SCAN New York
Sikh Coalition
Urban Justice Center
Wind of the Spirit Immigrant Resource Center
Working Families Party
 
To read the letter sent to Commissioner Kelly, click here .